cartel

• n. 卡特尔；企业联合；垄断联盟；俘虏交换条约
• n. (Cartel)人名；(法)卡泰尔

词源同card, chart.代指在纸上签署的合作协议。

cartel

cartel: see chart

cartel (n.)

1550s, "a written challenge," from Middle French cartel (16c.), from Italian cartello "placard," diminutive of carta "card" (see card (n.1)). It came to mean "written agreement between challengers" (1690s) and then "a written agreement between challengers" (1889). Sense of "a commercial trust, an association of industrialists" comes 1902, via German Kartell, which is from French. The older U.S. term for that is trust (n.). The usual German name for them was Interessengemeinschaft, abbreviated IG.

1. He acted as a frontman for a drugs cartel.

他给一个毒品集团当掩护。

来自《权威词典》

2. Since 1993 OPEC, the oil cartel dominated by Saudi Arabia, has kept its output constant at around 25m barrels a day.

自1993年以来，由沙特阿拉伯主导的石油输出国组织欧佩克就一直将石油产量控制在每天2,500万桶左右。

来自柯林斯例句

3. Cartel members may defect by behaving competitively.

卡特尔的成员国由于进行竞争而会出现背叛.

来自辞典例句

4. Almost no one sincerely likes winter except the oil cartel and the cough syrup magnates.

除了石油联合组织和生产止咳糖浆的巨头,几乎没有人真正喜欢冬天.

来自名作英译部分

5. In the classic script for a Cartel , the group sets a unified optimally exploiting price structure.

按照卡特尔的传统范本, 这个集团制定出一个统一的最有利于剥削的价格结构.

来自辞典例句